Unmanned aircraft are robots, and as such they need sensors to be fit to do what they are supposed to. The obstacle avoidance system has successfully passed preliminary tests and may be recommended for use later this year.
Russia may equip its drones with the so-called "technical vision" device
that enables them to see and avoid obstacles, detect small-size objects
and assess their potential danger. The system was created by a team of
engineers at the Luch designer bureau, who say that it has no analogues
in the world.
Installed onboard unmanned aircraft, it gives them capabilities that no other existing system can give, the bureau's deputy chief designer
Yevgeny Andriyevsky told the Voice of Russia: "Drones fitted with such a
system can do what none of the existing analogues is able to do. They
can fly at the lowest possible altitudes over zones with tall buildings
and over rugged terrain of which there are no reliable maps and where a
flight planning error might lead to the loss of the plane."
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